Six years after it was introduced, it looks as if Android’s Advertising ID (AAID) might no longer be the privacy forcefield Google claimed it would be.
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Apple App Store stuffed with hardcore porn and gambling apps
The apps, which violate content policies, got in there via the same Enterprise Certificate program that Facebook and Google exploited.
iPhone apps record your screen sessions without asking
Absent from privacy policies, the tracking came to light after a breach with Air Canada’s mobile app, then password slurping from Mixpanel.
Police demands Waze stop pinpointing their checkpoints
Waze users are helping intoxicated drivers to evade checkpoints and could thus be “engaging in criminal conduct,” say police.
Jack’d dating app is showing users’ intimate pics to strangers
A clear and present danger: Anyone with a web browser who knows where to look can access Jack’d users’ photos, be they private or public.
Apple kicks Facebook’s snoopy Research app out of the App Store
It was paying people, including teens, up to $20 to install an app that got root access for “nearly limitless access,” encryption or no.
Google cracks down on access to your Android phone and SMS data
Android apps that want access to your call and SMS data now have to pass muster with Google’s team of reviewers.
Are you sure those WhatsApp messages are meant for you?
Abby Fuller got a shock when she logged into WhatsApp using a new telephone number. She found someone else’s messages waiting for her.
Police can’t compel biometric phone unlocking, rules judge
The landmark decision asserts the same legal protection for biometrics that we’re given for passcodes.
El Chapo was brought down by a sysadmin
Christian Rodriguez says he set up secure VoIP communications for the cartel: a system whose encryption keys he wound up giving to the FBI.